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...near-legendary relationship with Mrs. McCormack, who gave up a career with the Metropolitan Opera to marry him in 1920, the lanky Boston Democrat once said: "It's all very simple. We're what we were from the first time we met-sweethearts." Avoiding the Washington social whirl, they breakfasted together every morning, never spent a night apart. When she was stricken last year, McCormack refused to leave her side, and occupied an adjoining room at the hospital...
...endless game of guessing who's really who in Proust gets another whirl from Novelist Elizabeth Bowen. She takes the character of Bergotte, Proust's fictitious writer of fiction, and after wondering briefly whether the original might have been Anatole France, finally decides Bergotte is really a "standin, scapegoat, whipping-boy for" Proust-particularly as a purple stylist and a snob...
...Hopper took off for Paris, returning twice in the next several years. Typically, he took no part in the Parisian whirl, where Picasso and Braque were busy trying to revolutionize painting. He remained a light-struck realist to the end of his days. His early work shows, however, that the shapes and, above all, the light of Paris, as well as the Impressionist ambience, did much for his eye and his palette. Back in the U.S., the attractive blur of Impressionism vanishes from his oils. The light flattens, shadows are sharper and more sculptural, forms grow increasingly solid and defined...
However, as is indicated by the prevalence of dissatisfaction throughout all strata of society, only a small minority of people have discovered this vital sense of purpose. The rest are in a state of drift in which they whirl in a gyre of idle pleasures, mistaking each new sensation as the incarnation of true happiness. "But pleasure is just the shadow of happiness." Ali said, for it fails to incorporate "the very secret of life, the desire to achieve something...
Meanwhile, the rides further down the board-walk kept spinning and dipping and whirling-the bumper cars and whirl-a-gig and Octopus. Tucked in quieter corners of this carnival, for the very smallest children, are tamer rides which turn in small circles, go very slowly, and remain perfectly level. They are designed to prevent the children from crying, to avoid upsetting them, rather than for excitement...